[Colonel Kangaroo]

The postal deficit is due to Congress requiring the USPS to prefund employee health benefits for the next 75 years.

[cableguymn]

The postal deficit is due to Congress requiring the USPS to prefund employee health benefits for the next 75 years.

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you left out the most important part..

So they can raid said fund.

[Bob]

The postal deficit is due to Congress requiring the USPS to prefund employee health benefits for the next 75 years.

When did that start? Recently?

See Figure 1 at: USPS Report from 2000

According to that chart, the USPS has been running deficits of a few billion dollars in most of the years going back to 1972.